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IOWA STATE DAIRY AND FOOD COMMISSION 
DES MOINES, IOWA 



REGULATIONS GOVERNING 

CREAM AND MILK STATIONS 



PUBLISHED BY THE 

Dairy and Food Commissioner 

W. B. BARNEY, Commissioner 



DECEMBER 1, 1917 



DES MOINES 

KCBFRT HENDERSON, STATE PRINTER 

1914 



IMPORTANT NOTICE ft#V 



(EFFECTIVE JUNE 15, 1914) 



RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR CREAM STATIONS AND 

OPERATORS. 



I. Every station used for the purpose of buying, handling or 
storing milk or cream should be conducted in a separate room. 

II. Every such building or room shall have an impermeable 
floor made of cement or tile laid in cement, grouted brick, wood 
or other suitable non-absorbent material which must be kept clean 
at all times. 

(a) The side-walls and ceilings shall be plastered, ceiled with 
metal, cement or other suitable material approved by the Dairy 
and Food Commissioner, and shall be kept clean at all times. 

(b) Every building or room shall be properly drained, lighted, 
plumbed and ventilated and conducted with strict regard to the 
influence of such conditions upon the purity and wholesomeness of 
the products handled therein. All window glass shall be kept 
clean. 

III. The doors, windows or other openings of every station 
used for the purpose of buying, handling or storing milk or cream, 
shall be properly screened during the fly season. 

IV. All utensils such as stirring rods, sample bottles, test 
bottles, pipettes, and scales, must be kept clean at all times. 

V. No doors or other openings shall be permitted between a 
milk or cream buying station and an adjoining room or place 
where poultry, wool, hides or other contaminating products are 
handled. 

VI. No operator or agent shall allow milk or cream cans to 
become insanitary or filthy, and before using the same for ship- 
ping or storing purposes shall see that all such cans are thor- 
oughly cleansed and in a sanitary condition. No operator shall 
be allowed to lend or lease any cream or milk can for any other 
purpose than the handling : storing or shipping of milk or cream. 

VII. Cuspidors for the use of operatives must be provided in 
a milk or cream buying station and no operative, employe or other 
person shall expectorate within any cream or milk buying station, 
except in cuspidors provided for that purpose. 



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VIII. The presence of cats, or dogs, as well as rats, mice, cock- 
roaches or other vermin is also prohibited. 

IX. The clothing of all operators engaged in the buying or 
handling of milk or cream shall be kept clean. 

X. All cream and milk cans or other vessels used for the stor- 
ing of dairy products must be kept covered to protect the same 
from contamination. 

XI. Every applicant for license to operate the Babcock test 
must thoroughly familiarize himself with the operation of the test 
and become competent to make a correct test before attempting to 
buy any milk or cream for commercial purposes. A permit issued 
by this department is not valid until an operator has complied 
with these rules. 

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAIRY LAWS OF IOWA. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to purchase to be converted 
into any product of human food, any unclean, unhealthful, adul- 
terated or unwholesome * * * * milk or cream. (Section 

4, Chapter 113, Laws of the 34th G. A.) 

The inspector may confiscate and seize without warrant any 
incorrect scales, weights or measures or any weighing apparatus 
or part thereof. (Section 17, Chapter 226, Laws of the 35th 

G. A.) 

Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 
tion by himself, or as the officer, servant, agent or employe of any 
person, firm or corporation to falsely manipulate or under-read or 
over-read the Babcock test or any other contrivance used for the 
purpose of determining the amount of milk fat in milk or cream, 
or to make any false determination of any test or contrivance used 
for the purpose of determining the amount of milk fat in any dairy 
products. For the purpose of this act the writing of a check or 
payment of money for cream or milk at any given test shall con- 
stitute prima facie evidence that such test was made. 

Section 8. No person shall operate a milk or cream testing ap- 
paratus duly approved by the state dairy and food commissioner, 
to determine the percentage of milk fat in milk or cream for the 
purpose of purchasing the same either for himself or another with- 
out first securing a license from the dairy and food commissioner 



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of this state, or from his duly appointed agent or representative, 
authorizing such person to -so operate such tester. 

Any person desiring to secure such license shall make applica- 
tion therefor on a blank to be prepared and provided by the dairy 
and food commissioner, and such applicant before being issued 
such license may be required to pass a satisfactory examination 
in person and prove by actual demonstration that he is competent, 
and qualified to properly use such tester and make an accurate 
test with the same. 

Such license shall be valid for one year after its issue and a fee 
of two and one-half dollars shall be paid by the licensee to the 
state dairy and food commissioner before such license shall be is- 
sued; licenses issued to operators of the Babcock or other ap- 
proved test under this act shall take effect and be in force from 
and after May 31, 1911. The dairy and food commissioner shall 
have authority to revoke any license issued under this act. 

The testing of each lot of milk or cream by any such unlicensed 
person shall constitute a separate offense, provided that any li- 
censed person may for valid reasons appoint a substitute for a peri- 
od not to exceed fourteen days, subject to the approval of the 
dairy and food commissioner. The fees collected under the pro- 
visions of this act shall be paid into the state treasury by the 
dairy and food commissioner. 

Section 9. Any person violating any of the provisions of this 
act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more 
than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than 
thirty days in the county jail. (Sections 7-9, Chapter 113, Laws 
of the 34th G. A.) 



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